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Originally Posted by slowlybutshelly View Post
I thought, probably like many others, that the picture of a similar truck going in the opposite direction on st landry was ALSO this truck. Can you clarify?
Shelly, the truck taking a left from St Landry onto University and the truck pictured farther down University are said by LE to be the same truck. The one going in the same direction as MS is a different one, and is the one that LE is still looking for.
Y'all DO know what this means, don't you?!
It spreads the search a lot farther afield along her route.
When everyone thought it was the same truck coming back, it was thought, "OK, they grabbed her and turned around."
The timeline WAS awful tight.
The fact that now the Z71 of interest is NOT seen coming back, means that either it grabbed her between the last shot of her at Circle K and 224 St. Landry, a distance of only 200 yds., and then keot heading west and WAS seen on the 224 St.L camera and LE is sitting on that info,
OR, she turned into the Lafayette Consolidated Government WEST parking lot, either as a planned route, or being pursued, and then that would mean that IF the trucl is involved, it pursued her either/or into the parking lot, OR continued out the back onto Azalea and got her in the neighborhood - -and then took off without coming back the way he came (meaning, without passing by the Circle K station again).
I can't believe, if this truck is involved, that a successful pursuit and capture would have extended very far into that neighborhood. Either they got Mickey soon after she turned off St. Landry, or the truck is likely NOT INVOLVED.
If THAT is the case, then it gets worse.... that means we have a COMPLETELY unexplained disappearance somewhere between her leaving St. Landry and her home, with no vehicle and no suspects.
I think at this point, it's going to be CRITICAL to check every single camera along her route home, using as a premise that she did NOT proceed further west on St. Landry than the camera at 224 St.L, on which she does not appear.
Sad thing... so much time has gone by that they're likely all erased.
Seems to me the case has been moving pretty slowly, and now the tapes they need are likely gone.
P.S. I didn't forget the possibility that she went down Brashear. But - it seems the resident would have heard something, and mainly, why on earth if she is fleeing a pursuing truck, would she cross the road in front of him, asking to get run down? The only other issue would be that she intended to take Brashear. I can see no plausible reason for her to take that street at all. She wasn't going back to Taco Bell to whine about a 99c taco. The choice to take Brashear boils down to exactly this:
It would reflect a decision to take Johnston west, instead of St. Landry west. I do not buy it. It's going a good click south out of the way to get on a busy street with hazardous bike paths and graduation drunks all over the road, just to have to make that distance back up when you go north again.
Unless someone can explain to me a solid reason why she should choose to avoid the remaining stretch of St. Landry, I can't see it. It's better than Johnston.
So, I see two strikes against her using Brashear - poor choice as an escape route from a pursuer, and Johnston being an inferior route.
All in all, either that truck pursued her through the government parking lot and into the neighborhood and got her, or that truck's not involved, and a ghost took her somewhere farther along the line....